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Rescuing or help after the storm passes. michael? yeah. ed, you are going to be right in the thick of it a few hours from now. appreciate your reporting there in naples. and we are now getting a better idea of the devastation after hurricane irma roared through cub cuba. intense winds knocked down frees. the full extent of the damage still not clear. on saturday morning, officials recorded winds nearing 200 kilometers an hour. one tourist town near the coast has waves rolling through it. along the streets, many people were especially vulnerable because they live in one story homes. not necessarily well built either. coming up here on the program, heavy rains and powerful winds lashing the coast as hurricane irma draws ever closer. we will have the latest from ....
Into to the next two years. he promised he was going to do this, remember he talked about this four years ago, he said that was one of the things he would love to see, a normalizing, by the way it s not free and open trade just yet. we re going to work our way into it. jay-z and beyonce are happy. there will probably be some business opportunities in cuba. but the guy that comes from cuba says he doesn t like the deal, he may never have gotten this through congress, through senate, so he went ahead and did it. am i hypocrite dl to say i don t like what he did with immigration, but i do like this, call me a hypocrite, i ll accept that, but in this case, it s very, very good for u.s. business, it s fantastic for u.s. agriculture. they re going be able to produce more. already we re sending a ton of soybeans and corn. not for russia. ....
With oil prices going down, this could lead to economic collapse for cuba, for venezuela, so the time was right to have this i only hope that the people in cuba will only benefit from this, just like to the people of the united states, the economies will benefit. i at the same time abhor their dictatorial are jet stream. that is what s driven people like senator marco rubio and senator menendez, whose families have fled cuba, not so much of the the markets and the united states benefit, but about the people of cuba. that s why it s been so hard to get this done in congress until now. they re not even going through congress. i tell you what s been hard, it s been hard because the cuban american lobbyists have been very strong throughout the ....
Administration. bob menendez had some equally tough words for president obama. i fear that todatoday s act also put at risk the thousands of americans that work overseas to support civil society, to advocate for access to information, to promote humanitarian services and promote democratic reforms. as to the president s broader policy announcements, i believe that it is misguided and fails to answer the nature of the regime in cuba that has exerted it s authoritarian control over the cuban people for 55 years. we should start by saying that we welcome home allan goss, he is a jewish aid worker, he was trying to help the cuban people and he had been held by the cuban government for many years. in fact he was the subject of several one more things on this program as we helped support his family and we re very glad that he is home back in his country, ....
And with his family especially at this time of the holidays. there are some strong arguments on both sides of this. this ended allan gross s imprisonment, but at the same time, with a snap of the finger, president obama announced a normalization of relations with cuba, how where do you sit on this? because i have a feeling you might have a view that is interesting to people. so, immediately after it came out, there were a lot of conservatives saying what is he doing? obama, here he is, getting close to another communist country, another communist leader. i m not on that bandwagon, i think this is a fantastic policy move by president obama, it was a long time coming. i love the idea of opening relations, opening markets with cub cuba, it s 90 miles off our shore, we re their number one food supplier, we supply a huge ....